Words And Peace my book reviews and good books to read

On this blog, you will find reviews about good books I read,
and that can give you some ideas on what to read next.

You will find all genres, fiction and non-fiction,
brand new books as well as classics.

You prefer books on paper? ebooks? audiobooks?
graphic novels?
There’s something here for you.

If you have a minute to drop a comment on some posts, please do, it’s fun to share our experiences with books, isn’t it?

And now about me:

First of all, in case you have not guessed yet, I LOVE reading!

I learned how to read when I was about 4, because I kept bugging my mother telling her  all day long that I was bored. It was in France, in a tiny little village, 250 inhabitants, no kindergarten, nothing for young kids.

So my mother figured out that if she taught me how to read, I would leave her alone. It worked, and that was the beginning of an incurable obsession.

There was no library either in the village – later, I would have access to some books through school. So I would read ANYTHING printed I could find. A very common scene was me lying on my stomach on the floor, reading the newspaper opened in front of me – the newspaper was too big for me, that was the only way I could easily read and turn the pages. And I was VERY upset when my parents would take too much time reading the news and depriving me of my most precious treasure.

Unfortunately, while discerning what to carry in my suitcase when I crossed the Ocean back in 2001, I destroyed the list of all the books I had read. I had started that list about 20 years before. I restarted a new one in 2001.

What do I read? about anything and everything, including recently graphic novels. I enjoy fiction as much as non-fiction. I LOVE the Middle Ages, and medieval historical novels are a delight.

It is only a few years ago that I managed to expand my horizon and admit that a book didn’t need to be in print on paper for it to be a ‘real’ book.  Thanks to my awesome public library, I started listening to audiobooks, and I enjoy it very much – I have never been but impressed by the fantastic job of the narrators. It is a real treat for me to listen to audiobooks when I do house chores and when I paint.

I have even got used now to having a few ebooks going on, thanks the free Kindle App, to ibooks, and also to the fantastic service of Dailylit, which sends you a book by sections to your email or your RSS Feed Reader.

Words And Peace is also on Facebook,  on Twitter, and on Goodreads.

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I mentioned painting.

I’m actually a French artist living in Illinois, USA.

I paint on rocks, all kinds of things, all sizes, following my inspiration and what customers desire me to paint on a rock for them, whether it be their dear pet who just passed away, of their favorite log cabin.

My art is displayed on

http://www.rocksbyemmanuelle.com/

and http://www.rocksbyemmanuelle.wordpress.com/.

Here is the Facebook Page for my rocks:
http://www.facebook.com/rocksbyemmanuelle.

If you could LIKE my 2 Facebook pages, that would be awesome. Thanks!

I also give French classes online [using skype - $20/hour], and do a lot of English-French translations (books, articles, websites, etc.)

And finally, I am a Computer Assistant in a public library.

Talk to you soon, about books!